As technology advances and computers become increasingly capable, the line between human and bot activity on social media platforms like Lemmy is becoming blurred.

What are your thoughts on this matter? How do you think social media platforms, particularly Lemmy, should handle advanced bots in the future?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] horse_battery_staple@lemmy.world 46 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

We're not handling the LLM generative bullshit bots now, anywhere. There's a thing called the dead Internet theory. Essentially most of the traffic on the Internet now is bots.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Internet_theory

[–] Docus@lemmy.world 20 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

It’s not just the internet. For example, students are handing in essays straight from ChatGPT. Uni scanners flag it and the students may fail. But there is no good evidence either side, the uni side detection is unreliable (and unlikely to improve on false positives, or negatives for that matter) and it’s hard for the student to prove they did not use an LLM. Job seekers send in LLM generated letters. Consultants probably give LLM based reports to clients. We’re doomed.

[–] JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world 11 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Hardly. Just do away with coursework and stick to in-person exams and orals.

[–] wholookshere@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

Spoken by someone who has never felt with a learning dissability

[–] GBU_28@lemm.ee 5 points 4 weeks ago

You can still have extra allotted time, or be provided a wiped computer or tablet. Colleges dealt with these disabilities before llms

[–] Docus@lemmy.world 3 points 4 weeks ago

I don’t disagree, but it’s probably not that easy. Universities in my country don’t have the resources anymore to do many orals, and depending on the subject exams don’t test the same skills as coursework.